diff --git a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Communities/stores/CommunitiesStore.qml b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Communities/stores/CommunitiesStore.qml
index aac9cb3498..6d52c6258d 100644
--- a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Communities/stores/CommunitiesStore.qml
+++ b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Communities/stores/CommunitiesStore.qml
@@ -99,13 +99,10 @@ QtObject {
         return root.communitiesModuleInst.getCommunityPublicKeyFromPrivateKey(privateKey);
     }
 
-    function requestCommunityInfo(communityKey, shardCluster, shardIndex, importing = false) {
-        const publicKey = Utils.isCompressedPubKey(communityKey)
-                            ? Utils.changeCommunityKeyCompression(communityKey)
-                            : communityKey
+    function requestCommunityInfo(communityPubKey, shardCluster, shardIndex, importing = false) {
         if (importing)
-            root.mainModuleInst.setCommunityIdToSpectate(publicKey)
-        root.communitiesModuleInst.requestCommunityInfo(publicKey, shardCluster, shardIndex, importing)
+            root.mainModuleInst.setCommunityIdToSpectate(communityPubKey)
+        root.communitiesModuleInst.requestCommunityInfo(communityPubKey, shardCluster, shardIndex, importing)
     }
 
     property var communitiesList: communitiesModuleInst.model
@@ -119,12 +116,9 @@ QtObject {
         root.communitiesModuleInst.prepareTokenModelForCommunity(publicKey);
     }
 
-    function getCommunityDetails(communityId) {
-        const publicKey = Utils.isCompressedPubKey(communityId)
-                            ? Utils.changeCommunityKeyCompression(communityId)
-                            : communityId
+    function getCommunityDetails(communityPubKey) {
         try {
-            const communityJson = root.communitiesList.getSectionByIdJson(publicKey)
+            const communityJson = root.communitiesList.getSectionByIdJson(communityPubKey)
             if (!!communityJson)
                 return JSON.parse(communityJson)
         } catch (e) {
diff --git a/ui/imports/shared/popups/ImportCommunityPopup.qml b/ui/imports/shared/popups/ImportCommunityPopup.qml
index b8d67d2d49..8c43e8d76f 100644
--- a/ui/imports/shared/popups/ImportCommunityPopup.qml
+++ b/ui/imports/shared/popups/ImportCommunityPopup.qml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ StatusDialog {
             }
             if (!root.utilsStore.isCommunityPublicKey(inputKey))
                 return ""
-            if (!Utils.isCompressedPubKey(inputKey))
+            if (!root.utilsStore.isCompressedPubKey(inputKey))
                 return inputKey
             return Utils.changeCommunityKeyCompression(inputKey)
         }
diff --git a/ui/imports/shared/stores/UtilsStore.qml b/ui/imports/shared/stores/UtilsStore.qml
index f178d93fb3..166446a22a 100644
--- a/ui/imports/shared/stores/UtilsStore.qml
+++ b/ui/imports/shared/stores/UtilsStore.qml
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ QtObject {
         return (Utils.startsWith0x(value) && Utils.isHex(value) && value.length === Constants.communityIdLength)
                 || d.globalUtilsInst.isCompressedPubKey(value)
     }
+
+    function isCompressedPubKey(pubKey) {
+        return d.globalUtilsInst.isCompressedPubKey(pubKey)
+    }
 }
diff --git a/ui/imports/utils/Utils.qml b/ui/imports/utils/Utils.qml
index 04d0f95550..f1b21f1ac2 100644
--- a/ui/imports/utils/Utils.qml
+++ b/ui/imports/utils/Utils.qml
@@ -725,10 +725,6 @@ QtObject {
         return (startsWith0x(value) && isHex(value) && value.length === 132) || globalUtilsInst.isCompressedPubKey(value)
     }
 
-    function isCompressedPubKey(pubKey) {
-        return globalUtilsInst.isCompressedPubKey(pubKey)
-    }
-
     function isAlias(name) {
         return globalUtilsInst.isAlias(name)
     }